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काकपुच्छ Kākapuccha

Deneb · α Cygni · Cygnus

individual staridentification certainattestations 1 Deneb α CygHIP 102098mag 1.25
LacertaKākapuccha
Kākapuccha sits at right ascension 20.7h, declination +45°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

Attestations

Sarvasiddhāntarāja (1639) · 1639 CE

No published e-text exists; the verse is readable in Pai & Shylaja's edition (JApA 42:113, 2021, open access), whose PDF is not machine-extractable (no ToUnicode maps). Pending an OCR proofread — never retyped.

Kākapuccha, the crow's tail, bright at the bird's tail. — Literal rendering by the compiler

Dhanab al-Dajāja, 'the hen's tail', re-imagined as a crow's — and an attested Sanskrit name for Deneb, whose Haṃsa label elsewhere is a 2011 coinage this database already retired. Identification and verse number per Pai & Shylaja (2021), Table 1; rendering after the edition's construal.

Sarvasiddhāntarāja, saṃkrāntyādi 53 (ed. Pai & Shylaja 2021) · text · translation